A resource provided by VIDA, Critical Management Studies Women’s Association We have compiled this checklist to assist colleagues in avoiding gendered language when writing references for applicants for academic jobs, research positions, awards and grants. Of course, language may also be affected in other ways; by for example race, class, disability and sexuality; and we…
Shame Strike: A response to the emotional demands placed on contemporary academics through demands for non-academic work
Following broader debate about the increasing demands of ‘shadow work’ encountered by VIDAs, our discussions highlighted the significant concern that policies of individualisation, isolation and social shaming are often employed in attempts to cut costs in academia. There seems to be no reflection on what these practices are doing to the wider academy as well…
When CMS men just won’t be told
So an edited version of a recent experience. I work with another woman colleague on leading a specific intellectual project in CMS. We have recently had to write several very strong emails to two men who were assisting with an element of this project, about total failure to meet deadlines. After being told by them…
Identify the problem: Testimonials of Being an Early Career Feminist Academic
This blog is not the only project aimed at highlighting the many intersectional issues affecting women in the professions, and in academia where the problems are well known and one might expect to find these matters more comprehensively addressed. A recent review of a new book of early career academic testimonials emphasises the wide range…
Women’s knowledge is less worthy
Continual evidence demonstrates the undermining of women’s work in academia
Solidarity and Res-sisters
Working together offers not only a way to organize, but also support against the everyday experience of sexism and discrimination
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